Al Stewart sang a song called On the Border. The song is running through my mind this morning because, like all of us, I am standing on the border between 2013 and 2014. “On my wall the colours of the maps are running/From Africa the winds they talk of changes coming…” Like Al Stewart’s song, I feel the winds of changes coming. Some of these changes are dark and the storm clouds are gathering. In many respects the changes in this New Year seem more ominous than the changes we’ve seen coming in previous years. And yet, there’s one constant in our lives that will never change. The God who created the sun, moon and stars, is the same God who led Abraham from his homeland to the land He promised that man and his family, who is the same God who raised Jesus from the dead, who is the same God who will return in the last days. This same God who walked with the ancients is walking with us today and nothing surprises Him. That gives me great comfort as I contemplate what we will be doing and what we’ll be facing in 2014. I have a great Hope that no winds of change can alter. God is the same Yesterday, Today and Forever. He will triumph over evil and He will give each of us personal victory over evil as well. Today as I stand on this border I am more confident than ever that John and I are going to see great things happen in our lives. Certainly there are unexpected things that will happen, but we serve a God who has promised us that He will be the Shade on our right hand, He is the Living Water, and He is the Bread of Life that will be with us on our journey providing for our needs along the way. And so tonight I will step from the land of 2013 into the land of 2014 and know my God is leading me through the valley of the shadow of death and I will fear no evil, because He is with me.

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Coleen Frazer-Hambrick is a writer and photographer who lives in Oklahoma with her husband. They have raised three boys and now have four grandboys. Along with writing and photography, Coleen and her husband are active members of a Wesleyan church.